Jeongsa (丁巳) day pillar
A candle over summer fire: passion that does not go out
What the Jeongsa day pillar is like
Jeongsa is a candle (丁) over early-summer fire (巳). Fire above and below make a same-element pillar, with Rob Wealth (겁재) in the day branch and Peak (제왕) as its stage. A small flame meeting a big one: it is read as having passion that does not easily go out.
Hidden in 巳 are 庚 as Direct Wealth (정재) and 戊 as Hurting Officer (상관), adding practical sense and expressiveness. It shows remarkable focus on what interests it, and competition brings out more effort.
Doubled fire overheats easily, and rest is often skipped. Choosing where to pour the passion keeps it from burning out.
The Jeongsa ilju (day pillar), character by character
Number 54 of the sixty-pillar cycle. The table shows what Halmeoni's calendar engine computes for this pillar.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Top character (day master) | 丁 — a candle or lamp (yin fire) |
| Bottom character (day branch) | 巳 — Snake · fire · early summer (about May) |
| Yin-yang | yin (both characters) |
| Elements | fire above, fire below |
| How the two relate | The same element above and below, so that element's nature shows plainly. |
| Hidden stems (ten gods) | 戊 Hurting Officer (상관), 庚 Direct Wealth (정재), 丙 Rob Wealth (겁재) |
| Ten god of the day branch | Rob Wealth (겁재) — a rival like you: competition, the urge to win |
| Twelve stages | Peak (제왕) — the peak: at your strongest, in charge |
| Void branches (공망) | 子, 丑 — an empty spot: what is hard to hold on to |
Hidden stems are the forces tucked inside the bottom character; the last one listed is the strongest. Ten gods describe each character as seen from the top character, the day master, so the same bottom character gets a different name under a different day master. The void branches are the two that have no partner in this pillar's ten-day week; they only matter when they appear elsewhere in a chart.
The twelve stages here count backwards for yin stems (the 음포태 method). Schools that give yin stems the yang table (양포태) get a different stage for this pillar.
A day pillar is only two of the eight characters in a chart. People who share it can read very differently once the year, month and hour are added, so take this as entertainment, not as a verdict on who you are.